Chapter 3723 — Challenging Above One's Tier
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
The logic was simple. Even with Meng Zhou and the others' mockery to provoke him beforehand, even if Wei Zhao momentarily lost his head, a long gap in between would inevitably let him cool down again. Without sufficient confidence, he might very well abandon the higher-tier challenge.
But with this assessment order, the Qingyun Pavilion newcomers led off right from the start. That would leave Wei Zhao no time to react, guaranteeing the scheme's success rate!
Seeing that Zhao Hongbo and the Law Enforcement Hall examiners were ready, Hu Yunfeng announced in a ringing voice to all the newcomers: "The second segment of the assessment officially begins now. We start with the Qingyun Pavilion newcomers. The two managing senior brothers will first organize everyone to register publicly, then assessments will proceed from weakest to strongest according to each person's registered strength tier. Junior Brother Kang, as the newcomers' steward, will keep the records."
As Hu Yunfeng finished speaking, Meng Jueming deliberately shot Wei Zhao a cold sneer, but he did not have Wei Zhao register first. Instead, he walked over to Meng Zhou's side, signaling that it should start with him.
Meng Zhou at once puffed out his chest and declared loudly and smugly, "Meng Zhou, strength: early Foundation Establishment. Challenging early Foundation Establishment peak!"
At these words, the whole hall erupted in an uproar. The newcomers of the other two pavilions, who had not been forewarned, now stared at Meng Zhou in utter disbelief!
After all, Pavilion Master Hu Yunfeng had specifically emphasized moments ago that no one should choose a higher-tier challenge to play the hero—that was the act of an incurable idiot. Yet Meng Zhou, the very first to register, had directly chosen a higher-tier challenge, and the hardest one at that, early Foundation Establishment peak. It was truly jaw-dropping.
One had to understand a common consensus in the cultivation world: in higher-tier challenges, the higher the strength tier, the greater the difficulty. If higher-tier challenges still occasionally occurred among low-tier cultivators, then at the early Foundation Establishment tier and above, such cases were extremely rare.
Because at low tiers, the difference in strength was merely that between one and two—a bit of extra hidden skill was enough to bridge the gap, and the difficulty of a higher-tier challenge was not especially great.
But at early Foundation Establishment and above, the difference in strength became that between ten thousand and twenty thousand—a gap that ordinary hidden skills simply could not bridge. The odds of succeeding in a higher-tier challenge were practically negligible.
What was more, this was an endurance test. To attempt a higher-tier challenge in defense—the weak point of the vast majority of cultivators—was, in the eyes of ordinary folk, no different from courting death!
Yet seeing Meng Zhou's utterly confident expression, the newcomers, for all their disbelief, did not dare rashly voice any mockery, lest they be slapped in the face later.
This fellow was, after all, one of the outstanding few among all the newcomers to have succeeded in Foundation Establishment first. Perhaps he did have some formidable hidden skill to handle a higher-tier challenge. At this level, after all, no one was a fool who did not know what death looked like.